CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
The City Council held its regular
meeting Wednesday evening at
o'clock p. m.
Present-Mayor Wr. B. Boyle, Al
dermen H. D. Barnett, W. A. Bow
inanv J. H. Chandler, P. P. Finn, R.
F. Haynsworth, E. H. Rhame and R.
K Wilder.
Absent-Alderman H. C. Hayns?
worth.
Minutes of August 8th asd 29th
were read and approved.
Mr. M. H. Beck requested council
Jt?>- order removal of an electric light
pole- from in front of a store on Har
vin street, in order that he might
erect an awning. The request was
referred to the commitee of Public
Works.
Mr. Neill O'Donnell complained of
coal dust from cinders placed on
East Liberty street, and asked that
the cinders be removed or covered
with rock or clay. Referred to com?
mittee on Public Worxs with power
to act.
Mr. I. C. Strauss addressed the
council in regard to petition of The
Suir?ter Telephone Company, for per?
mission to increase rates as agreed
by their subscribers. He repeated in
part the arguments and promises
made at previous meetings. He sub?
mitted a contract which the company
proposed to enter into with any
members of council, or other citizens
that would absolutely prevent the
sale of their rights, property or stock
for a period of \three or five years.
Mr. Strauss also presented an o^ii
. nance for adoption, whereby rates
were to be advanced as agreed by
?the subscribers. Major Marion Moise
was also heard on behalf of the com?
pany. He declared that all they
want is to get their, business on a
paying basis by charging rates th?tare
generally regarded as reasonable and
just. Mr. T. B. Fraser, attorney for
the special committee having charge
of the matter of telephone rates, de?
clared that parties who may buy the
stock- of the company would not be
successors in the legal sense, and
would be entitled to the same rates
as may now be allowed the company.
Mr. Fraser further stated that an
agreement by the company or the
stockholders not to sell their stock
would not be a binding contract, but
the option contract offeree by the
company would be good if made with
individual members of council or
other persons for a reasonable time.
Whether council <*hould make such a
v - ? i
contract is ' a business proposition
for them to determine for themselves.
A letter was read from The Sumter
Telephone Manufacturing Company,
again requesting the privilege of
erecting and operating a local ex?
change under the General Telephone
Ordinance without change of rates or !
concessions of any kind. Mr. Fraser
?was of the opinion that parties now
obtaining a telephone franchise would
have the right to apply to the Rail
, road Commission to fix rates. Messrs.
Strause and Moise protested agasst
i^ranting the franchise sought by the
Manufacturing Company, and asked
should it be granted that their com?
pany be placed upon equal footing
"with them by permitting their com?
pany to accept as of this date the
previsions of the General Telephone
Ordinance. Council went into com?
mittee of the whole, and discussed the ?
question at length. On being called
to order Messrs. Barnett an Finn
moved that the rates shall not be
changed, but shall stand as they now
are, except office 'phones, which
hereafter shall pay the same rates
as business 'phones and be classified
as such. The resolution was adopted.
Messrs. Finn asd Rhame. moved
that the request of the Sumter Tele?
phone Manufacturing Company for
a franchise be granted. The motion
was lost.
A letter was read from Mr. L. D.
Jennings presenting a claim of Mr. S.
Josie for damages to himself and a
vehicle, caused by being thrown into a |
ditch on E. Liberty streeet by a log
lying in the roadway. Referred to
the finance committee to investigate
and report.
The clerk was authorized to refund
to C. T. Price the tax on an unused
license.
Bid of E. T. Brailsford to lay a tin
roof ci a part of the Opera House
was referred to the Opera House
committee to consider and report.
A petition for a light at the corner
of Hampton and Salem avenues was
referred to the police committee, to?
gether with several similar petitions.
Request of Cole Brothers for re?
duction of license tax on their shows
was refused.
Mr. Barnett for the finance com
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minee reported that all claims re?
ferred to them had been examined
and approved and that they had cheek?
ed up the Clerk's book for month of
August and found them correct.
Mr. Haynsworth for the police com?
mittee recommended an increase of
$5 per month on salaries of the po
l:.ce- officers and the health officer,
which the committee thought only
just on account of the increased cost
of living. The recommendation wos
adopted.
Mr. Finn stated that the property
owners on the east side of Main
street, between Liberty and Caldwell
streets desire a concrete sidewalk,
and thought they would be willing to
pay one-half the cost. Referred to
the committee of public works with
authority to call for bids, provided
owners ?consent to bear one-half the
expense.
On request of Mr. E. iL Reardon
permission was granted the Second
Regiment Band, in recognition of
their services to the public, to con?
tract for a carnival company exhibi?
tion and donated to the band all li
licenses incident to the shows. Pro?
vided the band shall bear all expense
and extra police pay by reason of the
exhibition.
Report of Commissioners of Public
Works for August was read and re?
ceived as information.
The following claims were referred
to the Finance Committee:
Sumter Iron Works, S 7.3 G
T. B. Jenkins, $14.00; Von Ohsen &
Shirer, $8.75; Durant's Pharmacy,
$7.95; S. M. Pierson, ?54.45; Craig
Furniture Co., $26.00 ;DuRant's Hard?
ware Company, $8.21; Epperson Feed
and Ccal Co., $50.24; Cash Grocery
Store, 75 cents; Sumter Door, Sash
and Blind Factory, $7.41; W. S. Rey?
nolds, $7.00.
The Council then adjourned.
"DIRTY METHODS/'
3Ir. H. C. Cuttino Denounces the Un?
authorized Use of His Name and
the Dirty, Unscrupulous Methods
o? Mi*. Manning's Enemies.
As it has been suggested that I ?
may have had something to do with j
an article which appeared in the
State of August 23. 1906, relative to
the candidacy of Mr. R. I. Manning,
which article referred to me, and
which article was also circulated in
circular form on the eve of the sec?
ond primary. I take this opportunity
to emphatically deny any' knowledge
whatever of said article, until my at?
tention was called to the same in
the State, and further to just as vig?
orously deny any knowledge of the
intention to issue same in circular
form, until I was told that the same
was being circulated on the morning
of the second primary. It is absolute?
ly untrue that I had any knowledge
of either transaction, or any intima?
tion whatever of same. I was ab?
solutely not consulted at all and fur
th2r wish to say I am not in sym?
pathy with any such dirty, un?
scrupulous methods.
H. C. Cuttino.
Sumter, S. C., Sept. 12.
BATTLE IMPENDING.
The. Cuban Disurgents Have Every
Advantage and Will Probably Cap?
ture Havana.
Havana, Sept. 13.-The Cuban
situation as now stands is about as
follows: General Castillo and Col.
Asbert, with 3,000 insurgents are
camped 16 miles from Havana.
Gueara's army from Pinar del Rio
province is moving toward Havana.
Colonel Arales loyal army is stranded
at Consolicaion and is cut off from
army is preparing to attack the cap
Havana. The combined insurgent
ital when Guerra arrives within strik?
ing distance. The insurgents plan to |
establish a provisional Government (
with Senator Seas as president.
The United States cruiser is in
Havana harbor ready to protect
American interests.
The fight between the advance
guards of Castillo's army and the
loyalist- army is expected to begin
momentarily.
The farmers of Spartanburg coun
ty, at a largely attended meeting,
have endorsed the ten cent minimum j
suggested by the Southern Cotton As?
sociation's executive committee. Pres- !
ident Archer tola the cotton growers ?
he could son a thousand bales a: ten j
and a half certs, and urged all those
wishing to sell, to consult him.
Pain From a Burn Promptly Relieved j
by Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
.A little child of Mr?. Michael ?
Strauss'of Vernen, C^r.n. wa? recently !
in great pain from a burn on the hand
and as cold applications only increas
ed the inflammation, Mr. strauss ;
came to Mr. James X. Nichols, a local
merchant, for something to stop the
pain. Mr. Nichols says: "I advised \
him to use Chamberlains Pain Balm, j
and the first application drew cat the {:
inflammation and gave immediate re- ;
lief. I have used this liniment myself j
and recommend it very often for cuts, !
burn?, .-trains and lame back, and j
have never known it to disappoint." j
For sale by all druggists. j
THE DISPUTE SETTLED.
EXECUTIVE COM MITOTEE MEET?
ING.
Tabulation Shows Stubbs, William?
son and Ingram Elected-The Vote
For Governor.
From the Daily Item, Sept. 13.
The Sumter County Democratic
Executive Committee met in the
Court House at 12 m. today for the
purpose of counting the vote of the
second primary and for settling ques?
tions concerning that election. As
we shall see, the preliminaries as?
sumed large proportions and now, as
we go to press, the vote is still an
unknown quantity. A little after
twelve, county chairman Clifton, call?
ed the meeting to order, and then
called the roll by precincts. A bare
quorum was present, but the num?
ber gradually filled out as business
progressed. Of the candidates, Mr.
Walter Stubbs, Mr. J. H. Osteen and
Mr. Louis Williamson were present
looking after their interests. Col.
Scarborough, too, was there as can?
didate and in the capacity as a mem?
ber of the committee, Mr. Mark Rey?
nolds represented Mr. Osteen as at?
torney. Mr. Harmon D. Moise, was
there for Mr. Stubbs and Mr. Lang
Jennings was counsel for Mr. Wil?
liamson.
A motion was then made and car?
ried that it be ascertained whether or
not candidates had carried out the
law- regarding the filing of pledges
and statements before proceeding to
tabulate the vote. The law is that a
pledge be filed before elction that the
candidates would use no undue in?
fluence to get votes, and would give
neither money nor intoxicants . for
that purpose. Also the candidates i
must file, under oath, immediately j
before the elction a list of his cam- j
paign expenses, and after the election !
must file a similar statement of sub?
sequent expenses.
Under the motion to investigate j
this matter, the clerk of court
brought up the file. All candidates
had filed a pledge, or statement be?
fore and after each primary except
Mr. Stubbs and Mr. Osteen, who had
not repeated their democratic pledge
in the second primary, and Mr. Ing?
ram who had not filed his final ex?
pense account. ,
Then* began a discussion on the
construcaion of the law. Did the
omission of the second pledge
constitute a violation of the law or
was the. first pledge all-embracing?
Ard if candidates were in default,
would his opponent get the nomina?
tion or would there have to be anoth?
er elction. Mr. Cain moved that the
vote for those not complying' be dis?
counted. This motion was carried.
It" was then agreed that the term in
the act '"immediately after" mean un?
til tabulation was begun by the com?
mittee. >
Meanwhile Col. Scarborough had
started a sensation by asking ques?
tions of Mr. Williamson as to his elec?
tion methods. Had Mr. Williamson
used some whiskey he had in Provi?
dence for election purposes? And
had he not .stated to a Dalzel voter
that the campaign had cost him likaf
the devil? Nothing happened,-how?
ever, and the subject was postponed
till its reliability could be established.
Mr. DuPre now starts things again
by moving that Mr. Stubbs be
excluded from the count, as he had
not filed a second pledge before the
second primary. This motion was
made general by Mr. Cain, and sec?
onded. It was lost, 5 to 6.
It now looked as if at last the vote
would be tabulated. But no. Col.
Scarborough moved that the boxes
from ward 2, Gaillard's Cross Roads,
Farmer's and Rafting Creek, be held
over and actually counted again, as ?
to the magistrate in the sixth district.
To these, Mr. Jennings, speaking for
Mr. Williamson, added the-box. at
Scarboro. .
The question of the final expense
account now came up. Mr. Ingram
alone and neglected to file this state?
ment. On motion of Mr. Cain this
was considered . essential and in de?
fault thereof Mr. Ingram's vote is
nullified.
The committee now adjourned for
dinner, to meet again at half after
three.
i
Before the after dinner session, Mr. j
Ingram had filed his statement, ?
that putting himself on the same j
footing as the others.
From Daily Item. Sept. 14.
The Sumter County D?mocratie ?
Executive Committee reconvened af- '\
ter dinner yesterday and proceeded J
to the final count without any serious j
interruptions, one question, however,
had to be decided between Mr. Osteen j
and Mr ingram, candidates for mag?
istrate in the Fourth District, lt i
i
seems that the manager at that pre- ?
einet h;id found five county tickets in j
t!i<- State box; and five State tickets j
in the county box. The Democratic
rule in such M case is that the mis- j
placed ballots be thrown but ?lto- j
gether. But the two candidates
agreed, sighi unseen, to allow tbe '
vote to be counted. As it turned out
they were for Mr. Ingram, and Mr.
Osteen repenting him of the irregu?
larity, registered a kick before the
executive committee. There was
some debate between Mr. Reynolds
and Mr. Jennings, counsel for Mr.
Osteen and Mr. Ingram, respectively,
and Mr. Ingram finally prevailed, the
committee sustaining Mr. Jenning's
point that the agreement between the
candidates was sufficient grounds for
an estoppel. This decision made the
vote stand, Osteen, 101; Ingram, 105.
As reported yesterday, the first
count between Col. Scarborough and
Mr. Williamson, of the sixth district,
had resulted in a tie. They both de?
manded the re-count of certain box?
es. This corrected the list from Scar-,
boro precinct, giving Mr. Williamson
a majority of twelve. Col. Scarbor?
ough now removed hia objections.
He believed there were still a few er?
rors, but not enough to change the re?
sult. As he left the room - he stated
to the committee that he did not
know how much fraud had been in?
dulged in by his friends, but he was
certain that the other side was not
guiltless.
The official tabulation of Sumter
County as read by Chairman Clifton
was: Stubbs, S70; Dorn, 760; Wil?
liamson, 13$; Scarborough. 126; In?
gram, 105; Osteen, 101. Messrs.
Stubbs, Williamson and Ingram were
declared the Democratic nominees
for the offices of representatives,
magistrate of the Sixth and Fourth
District.
The count of the State boxes result?
ed in a heavier vote for Aansel than
had been expected, though no heavier
tha,n Manning's proportion in Green?
ville: The tabulation was: Manning,
1,218; Ansel, 441; Lyon, 933; Rags
dale, 711 Sullivan, S34 Wharton, 807.
GOOD WORK APPRECIATED.
Witherspoon Bros. & Co.. Show Their
Appreciation of thc Hard Work of
the Fire Department.
The fire that destroyed the mill and
lumber yard of the Sumter Lumber
Co., Sunday afternoon threatened the
big plant of the Witherspoon Bros.
& Co. with destruction and only hard
and persistent work of the firemen
stayed the progress of the fire and
prevented .the total destruction of
the coffin factory and other, buildings
of the company. In token of their ap?
preciation of the efforts of the fire?
men, Messrs. Witherspoon addressed
the following letter to Chief Hood of
the fire department:
Mr. R. S. Hood. Chief Fire Depart?
ment, Sumter, S. C.
Dear Sir: Please find enclosed our
check for ninety-nine ($99.50) dol?
lars and fifty cents, which you will
kindly distribute to the fire depart?
ment.
Please tender the company our
heartiest thanks for their heroic ef
forts to' save our plant Sunday even?
ing and night.
This check represents only a partial
expression of our appreciation for
services rendered; especially as the
same was given voluntarily.
Witherspoon Bros. & Co will ever
stand ready to commend'their prompt?
ness, fearlessness and heroism as fire
fighters*, and wish for them the com
.m?dation of Sumter's united citizen?
ship.
Yours most respectfully,
Witherspoon Bros. & Co.,
E. L. Witherspoon, Pres.
Manning's Big Majority.
The vote polled in Sumter county
was approximately 10 per cent, less
than in the first primary, August 2S.
The relative strength developed by
Manning and Ansel was about the
same in each primary, which indi-,
cates that' the voters who did not
turn out yesterday had no preference
between Ansel and Manning. The re?
turns did not come in as promptly
last night and today as on the night
and day following the first primary,
consequently it is impossible to get
today as complete returns as were
given on the day after the first pri?
mary.
Eighteen of the ?4 polling precincts
in the county gave the following:
For Governor.
Ansel.;.. .. 407
Manning..". .... ..1036
For Attorney General.
Lyon.7611
Ragsdale.565
For Railroad Comnussioncr.
Sullivan.717
Wharton.5S?
For House of Representatives.
Dorn.613
Stubbs."S*
For Min?strate 4th District.
Ingram.105
Osteen. 100
The precincts not officially reported
ire, Providence. Sa!.-m. Scarboro,
Pleasant Grove, Shiloh, Taylors. Xon- j
?fficial reports indicate that WHliam
,>:\ has been elected magistrate of th?
1th district over Scarborough.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Federal Buildings.
Within the next few weeks, J. K. j
Taylor, supervising architect of the j
treasury will send to Aiken, Chester !
Greenwood, ?uniter and Anderson a j
special agent from his office for the j
purpose of making a personal exam- j
ination of the proposals recently sub-j
mitted by the people of the places j
named for sites for federal buildings, j
authorized by the recent act of cong?
ress. Not long since proposals were
asked for in order that those having ?
available sites suitable for the erect- j
ion of government buildings might
submit them to the supervising . ar?
chitect. These proposals were opened
a short time ago and since that time
they have been carefully canvassed.
Those pieces of ground that have ap?
peared exhorbitant in price have
be n thrown out of the list
of the proposed sites that
will be examined when in?
spectors start to work. It is the in?
tention of Mr. Taylor under the act
of congress and the law governing
such purchases to have every piece
of the land that has been offered and
that is not considered too high, care?
fully gone over in person, by an ex?
perienced government agent. After he
J WhereyoufindShield
it is a safe place to tr,
they are sold by reli?t
everywhere. Be sure i
Kiser- s King $c
for men, and you will
money's worth. r Mai
styles and all the p
Leathers, Patent Colt
Gun Metal, Box Calf,
M. C. Kiser Compa
Manufacturers
Attention
We make a speei
COTTON GINS, (
style,) COTTON s
TON ON PLANTS
for rates, bef<
No. 10 N. Main Sta
-WI
Do you stand over
during these wai
when you can be c
you cook by using
BLUE FLAM!
We have them at s
Get our prices on
The Durant 1
When Buyi
The weight per rod an
taken into consideration
tion of the FENCE.
Heavy wires and the
always used on the AMI
tity already in service
dence of its merit.
The HINGE JOINT 01
fer CONTRACTION and
stand sudden and severe
with animals, without b
springing back to plac
is removed.
The most secure, lasti:
ICAN. Sold by
CAROLINA HA
has s-on the land proposed to be soldi
to the government and has carefully
considered the price at which- it is
offered he will make his report to
headquarters here. After that Mr.
Taylor will notify the people owning:
the land- that has been chosen to?
prepare their deeds for the transfer
to the government.
As stated, this work will be com?
menced w'thin a short time, and it
.s not thought that it will take the
special agent long to choose available
sites in the different places to which
they will be sent.
"To Cure a Felon"
* Says Sam Kendall, of Phillipsburg,.
Xan., "just cover it over with Buck
len's Arnica Salve and the salve wil?
do the rest." Quickest cure for burns,,
boils, sores, scalds wounds, piles, ec?
zema, salt rheum, chapped hands,,
sore feet and sore eyes. Only 25c at
Sibert's Drug Store. 'Guaranteed.
Annapolis, Sept. 12.-A generous
supply of fatherly advice from Sec?
retary of the Navy Bonaparte ac?
companied the diplomas handed out
to eighty-five future admirals, gradu?
ated from the Naval academy today.
, Farmers
alty of insuring
system and old
Lt gins and COT?
ATIONS. See us
Dre insuring.
H If If, lpt1
.eet, Sumter, S. C.9 M2"36
a hot wood stove
*m summer days
?omfortable while
a
S OIL STOVE;
ill prices.
Hardware Co.
ng a Fence
d size of wire must be
L ; also the CONSTRUC
I best galvanizing are
2EICAN, and the quan
on farms is good evi
a the American allows
EXPANSION, to with
$ pressure from contact
endings stays, the fence
e the instant pressure
ng fence is the AMER
WARE co.